Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
- Kenneth Blackwell
- Tennyson Flowers
- Richard Friedenberg
Stars:
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Episode 1 - Barefoot in Athens
Release Date: 1966-11-11Adaptation of Anderson's Broadway play about the philosopher Socrates' clash with authority.
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Episode 2 - Blithe Spirit
Release Date: 1966-12-07Noel Coward's classic comedy about a playwright researching the supernatural who inadvertently summons the ghost of his ex-wife.
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Episode 3 - Anastasia
Release Date: 1967-03-17In Berlin during 1926, a group of monarchist conspirators persuades an amnesiac girl to impersonate Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas II, whose children were thought to have been killed in 1918 during the Russian Civil War. According to rumor, Anastasia survived - and will inherit the Czar's millions if she can prove her identity.
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Episode 4 - Soldier in Love
Release Date: 1967-04-26Historical drama about the troubled relationship between Queen Anne and the ambitious couple General John Churchill and his wife Sarah.